Amelia Earhart book Last Flight
Letter to her husband George P. Putnam, on the eve of her last flight
Last Flight (1937)
Context: Please know that I am aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others.
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As quoted in Soaring Wings : A Biography of Amelia Earhart (1939) by George Palmer Putnam, p. 83
Cited as Amelia Earhart, "My Husband," Redbook magazine (Sept. 1933) in Mary S. Lovell, The Sound of Wings (1989), p. 101.
“Never interrupt someone doing something you said couldn't be done.”
As quoted in "She Drew Horses..." (2006) by Kelli Swan, p. 42
Disputed
“Never do things others can do and will do, if there are things others cannot do or will not do.”
As quoted in Have Fun with American Heroes : Activities, Projects, and Fascinating Facts (2005) by David C. King, p. 82; this is also attributed to Dawson Trotman in Through Her Eyes : Life and Ministry of Women in the Muslim World (2005) by Marti Smith, p. 116
Disputed
“Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.”
Chinese proverb, as quoted in The Homiletic Review, Vol. 90 (1925), p. 363
Misattributed